05/03/09

L'ennesimo commento su stampa e internet

"As more newspapers go out of business in the coming years, I think it's
important that our sympathy for individual employees not translate into
the fetishization of newsprint as a medium. And it's especially
important that we not confuse newsprint as a medium with journalism as
a profession. Newsprint and journalism have been strongly associated in
the past, but this an accident of technology, not something inherent to
journalism. Journalism—the process of gathering, summarizing, and
disseminating information about current events—has been greatly
enriched by the Internet. Journalists have vastly more tools available
for gathering the news, and much more flexible tools for disseminating
it. The replacement of static newspapers with dynamic web pages is
progress."